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Interdisciplinary Health Care Teams and Health Care Reform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Ruth B. Purtilo
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The purpose of this paper is to encourage reflection about the harm that could result if the positive aspects of team-organized health care are compromised during the health care reform process. While other models of health care delivery could replace teamwork and serve patients as well or better, the interdisciplinary health care team (IHCT) probably will not be abandoned. However, one or more disciplines whose members play important roles on various teams may be sacrificed in the hasty effort to define essential health care. Moreover, a significant proportion of the types of IHCTs in existence could be rashly eliminated from health plans. These changes should not take place randomly or by default.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , Summer 1994 , pp. 121 - 126
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1994

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